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A Federated Scientific Data Management System
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System - Changing owner does not include containing collection #443

Open dvstans opened 4 years ago

dvstans commented 4 years ago

If changes ownership by dragging an entire collection hierarchy to a local destination, the containing collection should be moved as well. Currently, only the contained records are moved and all collections are ignored.

dvstans commented 4 years ago

This is a bit more complex if user is moving data to a collection with existing and conflicting sub-collection names. Will need to analyze collection structure, identify existing target collection and collections that need to be created, then re-link each record as required.

dvstans commented 1 year ago

To clarify, if a user moves a collection that contains nested collections, the nested collections are lost and all contained data ends up in the collection that was moved. Other systems will typically just create duplicate folders with the same name. This is OK in DataFed since titles are not required to be unique.